To:G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Written:Written after March 23, 1916Published:First published in 1964 anCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49.

      Sent from Zurich to Berne.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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Inyour version of the “history” of “disagreements” there are
factual inaccuracies. For instance, before my departure from Berne, andnotat our last meeting, we discussed this point, and I not only
did not “let it drift past my ears”, but answered at length andrepeatedly, and you did not indicateby a single word,
neither then nor a whole month later, that this question was still an open
one to you, that it was in the form of an ultimatum, etc. But, of course,
if you are bent on “squabbles”, in one form or another, then you have no
interest in the facts, and I am in no position to prevent you. It is left
for me to choose one of the two alternatives you propose. I choose the
first. Put my signature to it and print (25) impressions as quickly as you
can, for it is extremely difficult to get in touch with the Lefts at such
short notice. Your “private statement” will be printed, of course, not in
the C.O. but inSbornik Sotsial-Demokratasimultaneously with the
publication of theRussiantext.

Salut,Lenin